Between 1898 and 1899, the Curies received 1.1 tons of pitchblende from the Austrians. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
Uranium occurs chiefly as pitchblende, which is an impure oxide. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
I'm to bring the sled back to the pitchblende site. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaur Planet]
I refer, in this section, to pitchblende and other items. From Wordnik.com. [The World Today] Reference
We now isolate lead from pure Joachimsthal pitchblende. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
"But what are you doing here with this load of pitchblende?". From Wordnik.com. [Treachery in Outer Space] Reference
To do so, the Curies would need tons of the costly pitchblende. From Wordnik.com. [Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium] Reference
Marie Curie isolated it from pitchblende a hundred years or more ago in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wind]
He informed Kai that he insisted that the pitchblende mine be named after Margit. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaur Planet]
Excellent was their response to news of the pitchblende deposit, with "continue" added. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle Town] Reference
Obviously, she concluded, there had to be a new radioactive element in the pitchblende. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
We know that that louse Caron of Mars doesn't want it to, since pitchblende was discovered. From Wordnik.com. [A World is Born] Reference
To get enough to weigh a single grain requires the treatment of 1,200 pounds of pitchblende. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
Finally in the ore of pitchblende they found not only one but three substances highly radio-active. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
It would take a deposit of pitchblende richer than anything I've ever heard of to penetrate the lead. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Pioneers] Reference
The process of obtaining radium from pitchblende is most tedious and laborious and requires much patience. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
Varian reported in next about the first pitchblende deposit, interrupting his construction of the terrain. From Wordnik.com. [Survivors]
Kai and Bonnard took off north to do a depth assessment of a pitchblende strike discovered by Berru and Triv. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaur Planet]
"Oh, Nifilheim; that fetus could have been conceived on a patch of pitchblende no bigger than this table ...". From Wordnik.com. [The Fuzzy Papers]
Several tons of pitchblende was later put at their disposal through the good offices of the Austrian Academy of. From Wordnik.com. [Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium] Reference
The mine's administrators would send alternatively one ton of pitchblende to Atzgersdorf, Vienna and one to Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
Kai tapped out of the computer the print of Gaber's chart, updated now with the pitchblende site and the old cores. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaur Planet]
~ In 1896 the French scientist Becquerel observed that the mineral pitchblende possesses certain remarkable properties. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Then, when Astro revealed the secret of the mine, the presence of the uranium pitchblende, Walters shook his head slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Treachery in Outer Space] Reference
They want to do this because a group of men have made a discovery of a pitchblende deposit, enabling the production of radium. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
"We found the mother's own end of a great whopping saddle of pitchblende ... rich or I'll give you every credit in my account!". From Wordnik.com. [Cattle Town] Reference
Additionally, pitchblende, raw ore containing uranium, was more radioactive than the amounts of included uranium could explain. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
Note 57: Up to that time, the mines in St. Joachimsthal were the main and only considerable source of pitchblende in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
Around the two men was ample evidence of Astro's original assumption that they were digging into a hot vein of uranium pitchblende. From Wordnik.com. [Treachery in Outer Space] Reference
In the mad rush for the uranium-yielding pitchblende, they had swarmed over the deserts toward the dwarf mountains by the thousands. From Wordnik.com. [Stand by for Mars!] Reference
During the years between 1899 and 1902, Marie Curie dissolved, filtered and repeatedly crystallized nearly three tons of pitchblende. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Marie Sklodowska Curie (18671934) showed that pitchblende (uranium ore) contained two new radioactive elements: radium and polonium. From Wordnik.com. [1895] Reference
Jim was a pitchblende broker and spent his career roaming the globe-Gabon, Saskatchewan, Namibia, Queensland-in pursuit of this exotic ore. From Wordnik.com. [Shampoo Planet]
The best radium mineral is the pitchblende from St. Joachimsthal (Austria) which has for a long time been processed to yield uranium salts. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture] Reference
In 1898 she reported a probable new element in pitchblende, and Pierre Curie joined in her research. From Wordnik.com. [A Day In the Life] Reference
Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity, Mme Curie began to investigate uranium, a radioactive element found in pitchblende. From Wordnik.com. [A Day In the Life] Reference
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